Apple iDVD 5 - Manual (Page 24)

24 Chapter 3 iDVD Tutorial
Customize the Main Menu
Each iDVD menu can be customized to suit your project, by adding background
images, slideshows, or short movies. You can add a subtitle to the main menu and
change the main menu title, or change the color, style, and position of the text, set a
transition to the next menu or movie, and add or change the music in the menu.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to add a slideshow to the Kids Theater menu
background, and then change the look of the menu buttons and text.
Did You Know?—Themes and Scene Selection Menus
iDVD includes pairs of themes for you to use when you want to create two levels of
menus. The Kids Theater One theme, used in this tutorial, is an example of this. Paired
themes allow you to create DVD menus with some variety, while still keeping with
the same overall theme. It’s especially useful when you add movies with chapter
markers to your project. The second-level menu themes are a great way to display
buttons that link to each chapter of your movie.
If you don’t want to create a scene selection menu, and instead you want your
movie to be accessed only by a single button, you can turn off the automatic scene
selection menu generation in iDVD Preferences. To learn more, search iDVD Help for
“chapter marker submenu.”
iDVD also features new themes with dynamic drop zones. To see an example, select
themes from the 5.0 Themes list in the Themes pane of the Customize drawer. You
can drop short movies, slideshows, or still images into each of the dynamic drop
zones, which move around on the screen. To learn about editing dynamic drop zones,
search iDVD Help for “dynamic drop zones.”
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